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Doorstoppers

Essential doorstoppers

The Tale of Genji
(11th century)
by Murasaki Shikibu

The Story of the Stone
(18th century)
by Cao Xueqin

The Count of Monte Cristo
(1844)
by Alexander Dumas

In Remembrance of Things Past
(1927)
by Marcel Proust

The Man Without Qualities
(1942)
by Robert Musil
Additional Doorstoppers
Outlaws of the Marsh (14th century) by Shi Nai’an
Three Kingdoms (14th century) by Luo Guanzhong
The Decameron (14th century) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Gargantua and Pantagruel (16th century) by Francois Rabelais
Journey to the West (16th century) by Wu Cheng’en
The Faerie Queene (1596) by Edmund Spenser
Don Quixote (1615) by Miguel Cervantes
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton
Nicholas Nickleby (1839) by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens
Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot
The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope
Kristin Lavransdatter (1920–1922) by Sigrid Undset
Before the Dawn (1929) by Toson Shimazaki
Musashi (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Arcades Project (1940) by Walter Benjamin
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) by Rebecca West
The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965) by Marguerite Young
Women and Men (1987) by Joseph McElroy
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
Rising Up and Rising Down (2003) by William T. Vollmann
2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolano
Parallel Stories (2005) by Peter Nadas
Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon
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Novellas


Heart of Darkness
(1899)
by Joseph Conrad

Heart of a Dog
(1925)
by Mikhail Bulgakov

Dream Story
(1926)
by Arthur Schnitzler

Miss Lonelyhearts
(1933)
by Nathanael West

Animal Farm
(1945)
by George Orwell
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Woflgang von Goethe
Mathilda (1820) by Mary Shelley
The Girl With the Golden Eyes (1833) by Honore de Balzac
Taras Bulba (1835) by Nikolai Gogol
Diary of a Madman (1835) by Nikolai Gogol
A Hero of Our Time (1839) by Mikhail Lermontov
The Murders of the Rue Morgue (1841) by Edgar Allen Poe
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
The Double (1846) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Loved One (1848) by Evelyn Waugh
Bartleby the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville
Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) by George Eliot
The Lifted Veil (1859) by George Eliot
First Love (1860) by Ivan Turgenev
The Cossacks (1863) by Leo Tolstoy
Therese Raquin (1867) by Emile Zola
The Eternal Husband (1870) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Torrents of Spring (1871) by Ivan Turgenev
Around the World in 80 Days (1873) by Jules Verne

Notes from Underground
(1864)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of Mice and Men
(1937)
by John Steinbeck

Nausea
(1938)
by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Ballad of Sad Cafe
(1951)
by Carson McCullers

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
(1962)
by Solzhenitsyn
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Daisy Miller (1878) by Henry James
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy
Pierre and Jean (1887) by Guy de Maupassant
Alien Hearts (1887) by Guy de Maupassant
The Horla (1887) by Guy de Maupassant
Looking Backward (1887) by Edward Bellamy
The Man Who Would be King (1888) by Rudyard Kipling
Billy Budd (1888) by Herman Melville
The Devil (1889) by Leo Tolstoy
The Duel (1891) by Anton Chekhov
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane
The Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells
Master and Man (1895) by Leo Tolstoy
The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
Three Lives (1906) by Gertrude Stein
Botchan (1906) by Natsume Soseki

The Great Gatsby
(1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thousand Cranes
(1952)
by Yasunari Kawabata

The Unnamable
(1953)
by Samuel Beckett

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
(1965)
by Yukio Mishima

The Crying of Lot 49
(1966)
by Thomas Pynchon
The Secret Sharer (1909) by Joseph Conrad
The Mysterious Stranger (1910) by Mark Twain
Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton
Death in Venice (1912) by Thomas Mann
The Dead (1914) by James Joyce
The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
The Lemoine Affair (1919) by Marcel Proust
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse
The Fox (1923) by D.H. Lawrence
Story of the Eye (1928) by Georges Bataille
A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf
At the Mountains of Madness (1931) by H.P. Lovecraft
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck
Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
Junky (1953) by William S. Burroughs
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury

The Pearl
(1947)
by John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea
(1951)
by Ernest Hemingway

The Key
(1956)
by Junichiro Tanizaki

The Castle of Crossed Destinies
(1973)
by Italo Calvino

Too Loud a Solitude
(1976)
by Bohumil Hrabal
Night (1955) by Elie Wiesel
Pedro Paramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo
Seize the Day (1956) by Saul Bellow
Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin
The Subterraneans (1958) by Jack Kerouac
No One Writes the Colonel (1961) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
Outer Dark (1968) by Cormac McCarthy
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
Child of God (1973) by Cormac McCarthy
Dusklands (1974) by J.M. Coetzee
The Pathseeker (1977) by Imre Kertesz
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Pale View of Hills (1982) by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Tenth Man (1985) by Graham Greene
South of the Border, West of the Sun (1992) by Haruki Murakami
The Actual (1997) by Saul Bellow
The Body Artist (2001) by Don Delillo
The Dying Animal (2001) by Phillip Roth
Everyman (2006) by Phillip Roth
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Contemporary Novellas

1970s

Dark Spring
(1970)
by Unica Zurn

The White Ship
(1970)
by Chinghiz Aitmatov

Flats/Quake
(1971-4)
by Rudolph Wurlitzer

Love
(1971)
by Angela Carter

Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine
(1972)
by Stanley Crawford
Further 1970s
The Summer Book (1972) by Tove Jansson
Motorman (1972) by David Ohle
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972) by Peter Handke
Roadside Picnic (1972) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Asleep in the Sun (1973) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1973) by B.S. Johnson
Telegram (1973) by Putu Wijaya
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974) by Heinrich Boll
For Love of Norway (1975) by Pal Espolin Johnson
Travesty (1976) by John Hawkes
Journey into the Past (1976) by Stefan Zweig
P’s Three Women (1977) by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes
Fatale (1977) by Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Hour of the Star (1977) by Clarice Lispector
The Painter of Signs (1977) by R.K. Narayan
Secret Rendezvous (1977) by Kobo Abe
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (1978) by Danilo Kis
Sleepless Nights (1979) by Elizabeth Hardwick
Volcano (1979) by Shusaku Endo
1980s

The Viceroy of Ouidah
(1980)
by Bruce Chatwin

A Month in the Country
(1980)
by J.L. Carr

A Bohemian Youth
(1980)
by Josef Hirsal

Loitering With Intent
(1981)
by Muriel Spark

Concrete
(1982)
by Thomas Bernhard
Further 1980s
So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away (1982) by Richard Brautigan
The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town (1982) by Amos Tutuola
The Assault (1982) by Harry Mulisch
The Wine of Astonishment (1982) by Earl Lovelace
A Tiger for Malgudi (1983) by R.K. Narayan
Mr. Palomar (1983) by Italo Calvino
The Cannibal Galaxy (1983) by Cynthia Ozick
Alladin's Problem (1984) by Ernst Junger
The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras
In the Dutch Mountains (1984) by Cees Nooteboom
Isle of Dreams (1985) by Hino Keizo
Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas (1983-6) by Can Xue
Stone in a Landslide (1985) by Maria Barbal
The Day the Leader was Killed (1985) by Naguib Mahfouz
In the Country of Last Things (1987) by Paul Auster
The Pigeon (1987) by Patrick Suskind
Kitchen (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto
The Swordfish (1989) by Hugo Claus
Mister Blue (1989) by Jacques Poulin
1990s

Kaddish for an Unborn Child
(1990)
by Imre Kertesz

The Following Story
(1991)
by Cees Nooteboom

Chaos and All That
(1991)
by Lui Sola

Babyfucker
(1992)
by Urs Allemann

The Death of the Author
(1992)
by Gilbert Adai
Further 1990s
Angels and Insects (1992) by A.S. Byatt
The Other City (1993) by Michal Ajvaz
Loving Sabotage (1993) by Amelie Nothomb
The Marx Family Saga (1993) by Juan Goytisolo
The Crime Studio (1994) by Steve Aylett
Shyness and Dignity (1994) by Dag Solstad
Of Love and Other Demons (1994) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pereira Declares (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi
Phosphor in Dreamland (1995) by Rikki Ducornet
Panther in the Basement (1995) by Amos Oz
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996) by Kim Young-ha
Escape Hatch (1996) by Vladimir Makanin
The Diary of Mr. Pinke (1995) by Ewald Murrer
Reader's Block (1996) by David Markson
A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (1998) by Peter Dimock
Kneller's Happy Campers (1998) by Etgar Keret
Honk if you Love Aphrodite (1999) by Daniel Evan Weiss
The Literary Conference (1999) by Cesar Aira
Earth and Ashes (1999) by Atiq Rahimi
2000s

In Her Absence
(2000)
by Antonio Munoz Molina

Kafka's Leopards
(2000)
by Moacyr Scliar

The Colors of Infamy
(2000)
by Albert Cossery

Tales of Galicia
(2001)
by Andrzej Stasiuk

Besides the Sea
(2001)
by Veronique Olmi
Further 2000s
Inez (2001) by Carlos Fuentes
Bait (2001) by David Albahari
Europeana (2001) by Patrik Ourednik
Good Morning Comrades (2001) by Ondjaki
All This Belongs to Me (2002) by Petra Hulova
Conversations with Spinoza (2002) by Gocec Smilevski
In the Flesh (2002) by Christa Wolf
Agape Agape (2002) by William Gaddis
The Blue Fox (2003) by Sjon
Piano (2003) by Jean Echenoz
The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) by Yoko Ogawa
The Book of Words (2004) by Jenny Erpenbeck
Moving Parts (2004) by Magdalena Tulli
Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (2005) by Amos Oz
Bonsai (2006) by Alejandro Zambra
The Waitress Was New (2008) by Dominique Fabre
The North of God (2008) by Steve Stern
The Hermaphrodite (2009) by Daniel Grandbois
Next World Novella (2009) by Matthias Politycki
2010s

The Brothers
(2010)
by Asko Sahlberg

Lightning
(2010)
by Jean Echenoz

Train Dreams
(2011)
by Denis Johnson

Down the Rabbit Hole
(2011)
by Juan Pablo Villalobos
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Poetry

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Short Story Collections

Classic

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
by Guy de Maupassant

First Love and Other Stories
by Ivan Turgenev

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy

Three Tales
by Gustav Flaubert

Dead Men Tell No Tales
by Emile Zola
Further classic collections
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
The Kruezter Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892–1895 by Anton Chekhov
The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896–1904 by Anton Chekhov
Carmen and Other Stories by Prosper Merimee
Modern

Elephant
by Raymond Carver

Dubliners
by James Joyce

Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges

Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway

South of No North
by Charles Bukowski
Further modern collections
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the Heart of the Country by William Gass
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner
The Return by Andrei Platonov
The Collected Short Stories by Roald Dahl
Contemporary

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace

The Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami

Last Evenings on Earth
by Roberto Bolaño

The Dog of the Marriage
by Amy Hempel

Life After God
by Douglas Coupland
Further contemporary collections
How We are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Drown by Junot Diaz
Break it Down by Lydia Davis
No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July
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Flash Fiction Collections

Pre-1950

The Waste Books
by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The Complete Fables
of Jean de la Fontaine

Nature Stories
by Jules Renard

Microscripts
by Robert Walser

Today I Wrote Nothing
by Daniil Kharms
Further Pre-1950
Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon
The Collected Stories by Colette
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights
41 Stories by O. Henry
Post-1950

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata

Lost in the Funhouse
by John Barth

The Voice Imitator
by Thomas Bernhard

The Age of Wire and String
by Ben Marcus

Metrophilias
by Brendan Connell
Further Post-1950
The Book of Fables by W.S. Merwin
The Nimrod Flip-out by Etgar Keret
Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
The Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
AM/PM by Amelia Gray
The Black Sheep and Other Fables by Augusto Monterroso
Road-Side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
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Theatre/Drama

Classical through Medieval

The Three Theban Plays
by Sophocles

The Oresteia
by Aeschylus

Electra and Other Plays
by Euripides

The Complete Plays
by Aristophanes

Plays and Fragments
by Menander
Classical through Medieval cont.
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
The Comedies by Terence
The Loom of Time by Kalidasa
The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim
Japanese Noh Dramas
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By theme


Depressing Literature


Journey to the End of the Night
(1932)
by Celine

The Book of Disquiet
(1935)
by Fernando Pessoa

No Longer Human
(1948)
by Osamu Dazai

Stoner
(1965)
by John Edward Williams

The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
(1980)
by Chinghiz Aitmatov
Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov
Germinal (1885) by Emile Zola
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy
Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
Kokoro (1914) by Natsume Soseki
The Maimed (1923) by Hermann Ungar
Moravagine (1926) by Blaise Cendrars
The Sufferings of Prince Stenenhoch (1928) by Ladislav Klima
Will O'The Wisp (1931) by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
On the Heights of Despair (1934) by E.M. Cioran
Death on Installment Plan (1936) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
Mouchette (1937) by Georges Bernanos
Ask the Dust (1939) by John Fante
On the Marble Cliffs (1939) by Ernst Junger
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
The Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati
Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) by Jean Genet
The Lost Weekend (1944) by Charles Jackson
Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata
The Setting Sun (1947) by Osamu Dazai
If This is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi
The Tunnel (1948) by Ernesto Sabato
Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
Thousand Cranes (1952) by Yasunari Kawabata
This Business of Living (1952) by Cesare Pavese
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) by Hubert Selby Jr.
Death and the Dervish (1966) by Mes Selimovic
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Ryhs
The Trouble With Being Born (1973) by E.M. Cioran
The Thorn Birds (1977) by Colleen McCullough
The Hour of the Star (1977) by Clarice Lispector
Rituals (1980) by Cees Nooteboom
The Emigrants (1992) by W.G. Sebald
To Live (1993) by Yu Hua
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) by Lorrie Moore
4:48 Psychosis (1999) by Sarah Kane
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010) by Aimee Bender
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Female Authors


Sappho
(b. 630 BCE)

Murasaki Shikibu
(b. 973)

Sor Juana Ines
(b. 1651)

Emily Dickinson
(b. 1830)

Virginia Woolf
(b. 1882)
Li Ch'ing-chao (b. 1084) Sei Shonagon
Aphra Behn (b. 1640) Frances Burney
George Sand George Eliot
Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mary Shelley Christina Rossetti
Harriet Beecher Stowe Higuchi Ichiyo
Charlotte Gilman Edith Wharton
Willa Cather Kate Chopin
Edna St. Vincent Millay Sigrid Undset
Gertrude Stein Pearl Buck

Akiko Yosano
(b. 1878)

Anna Akhmatova
(b. 1889)

Marguerite Yourcenar
(b. 1903)

Carson McCullers
(b. 1917)

Clarice Lispector
(b. 1920)
Radclyffe Hall Sophie Treadwell
Zora Hurston Marina Tsvetaeva
Anna Kavan Marossa di Giorgio
Katherine Mansfield H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Fumiko Enchi Djuna Barnes
Elizabeth Smart Colette
Xiao Hong Jane Bowles
Eva Svankmajerova Lillian Hellman
Grazia Deledda Zitkala-Sa
Muriel Spark Anais Nin

Olivia Manning
(b. 1908)

Tove Jansson
(b. 1914)

Wislawa Szymborska
(b. 1923)

Flannery O'Connor
(b. 1925)

Anne Carson
(b. 1950)
Daphne du Maurier Christina Stead
Katherine Anne Porter Sylvia Plath
Simone de Beavoir Joyce Carol Oates
Eileen Chang Marianne Moore
Toni Morrison Nadine Gordimer
Anne Sexton Rose Macaulay
Alice Munro Dorothy Parker
Elfriede Jelinek Unica Zurn
Daniela Fischerova Ursula LeGuin
Kathy Acker Lin Hai-yin

Leonora Carrington
(b. 1917)

Cynthia Ozick
(b. 1928)

Angela Carter
(b. 1940)

Olga Tokarczuk
(b. 1962)

Miranda July
(b. 1974)
Tatyana Tolstaya Dubravka Ugresic
Margaret Atwood Doris Lessing
Magda Szabo Iris Murdoch
Magdalena Tulli Sarah Kane
Christa Wolf Lyn Hejinian
Marguerite Duras Zadie Smith
Park Wan-suh Liliana Ursu
Lorrie Moore Anita Desai
Lydia Davis Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Kate Christensen Herta Muller
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